Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to identifying necrotic tissue in a multiplex immunofluorescence image of a slice of specimen. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to accessing a multiplex immunofluorescence image of a slice of specimen comprising a first channel for a nuclei marker and a second channel for an epithelial tumor marker, wherein the slice of specimen comprises one or more necrotic tissue regions; providing the multiplex immunofluorescence image to a machine-learning model; receiving an output of the machine-learning model corresponding to a prediction that the multiplex immunofluorescence image includes one or more necrotic tissue regions at one or more particular portions of the multiplex immunofluorescence image; generating a mask for subsequent image processing of the multiplex immunofluorescence image based on the output of the machine-learning model; and outputting the mask for the subsequent image processing.